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authorMathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>2021-07-09 10:20:39 +0200
committerMathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>2021-07-09 12:08:12 +0200
commit74168d99bb50e8dd17af970d83eca771487be467 (patch)
tree4c71e8b181d07a0094e6eb32e16ffbe437b507a3
parentb182121458c0126a05a41fec78a4f42472ba8081 (diff)
downloadguix-74168d99bb50e8dd17af970d83eca771487be467.tar.gz
system: Provide mg instead of zile.
Since the update to the 2.6.2 release, the closure size of zile has
increased. Switch to mg which is lighter.

* gnu/system.scm (%base-packages-interactive): Replace zile by mg.
* doc/guix.texi (Proceeding with the Installation,
Using the Configuration System): Adapt those sections.
-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi4
-rw-r--r--gnu/system.scm4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 18bc600440..46cec73d11 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -2543,7 +2543,7 @@ provide the declaration of the operating system to be installed.  To
 that end, the installation system comes with three text editors.  We
 recommend GNU nano (@pxref{Top,,, nano, GNU nano Manual}), which
 supports syntax highlighting and parentheses matching; other editors
-include GNU Zile (an Emacs clone), and
+include mg (an Emacs clone), and
 nvi (a clone of the original BSD @command{vi} editor).
 We strongly recommend storing that file on the target root file system, say,
 as @file{/mnt/etc/config.scm}.  Failing to do that, you will have lost your
@@ -13485,7 +13485,7 @@ environment variable---in addition to the per-user profiles
 (@pxref{Invoking guix package}).  The @code{%base-packages} variable
 provides all the tools one would expect for basic user and administrator
 tasks---including the GNU Core Utilities, the GNU Networking Utilities,
-the GNU Zile lightweight text editor, @command{find}, @command{grep},
+the @command{mg} lightweight text editor, @command{find}, @command{grep},
 etc.  The example above adds GNU@tie{}Screen to those,
 taken from the @code{(gnu packages screen)}
 module (@pxref{Package Modules}).  The
diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm
index 8a3ae27d04..a7c2b1bca4 100644
--- a/gnu/system.scm
+++ b/gnu/system.scm
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
   #:use-module (gnu packages package-management)
   #:use-module (gnu packages pciutils)
   #:use-module (gnu packages texinfo)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages text-editors)
   #:use-module (gnu packages wget)
-  #:use-module (gnu packages zile)
   #:use-module (gnu services)
   #:use-module (gnu services shepherd)
   #:use-module (gnu services base)
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ of PROVENANCE-SERVICE-TYPE to its services."
 
 (define %base-packages-interactive
   ;; Default set of common interactive packages.
-  (list less zile nano
+  (list less mg nano
         nvi
         man-db
         info-reader                     ;the standalone Info reader (no Perl)